Decorative stripping



Apml 7, E936. FRoHLlcH DECORATIVE STRIPPING Filed May 6, 1935 VENTO IRVING FROHLICH BY MQ@ ORNEY Patented pr. 7, 1936 PATENT oFFlcE 2,036,963 DECORATIVE -s'rmPPING Irving Frohli'ch, Brooklyn N. Y., assignor to AS- sael & Arbib, Incorporated, NewYork, N. Y.,

a corporation of New York Application May 16, 1935, Serial No. 20,001

1 Claim.

The invention relates to a stripping or similar flexible tape-like binding strip designed to `be used as a trimming to be secured to shoes, slip:- pers, belts, handbags, lamp shades and the like, when made of leather, imitation leather, cardboard or fabric, to decorate the same.

The primary object ofthe invention is to provide an inexpensive form of stripping' which can be cheaply and economically .manufactured in long strips and which will present a .pleas-ing effect simulating a cloisonne or having Isome other artistic design showing. In the form of the invention herein selected for specific disclosure the stripping is formed primarily of a layer of paper, tin foil, or Celluloid with a design embossed, molded or otherwise formed on its exposed face, and with the exposed design forming face covered with a layer of transparent celluloid preferably colored or tinted Celluloid to form a unitarylayer of thin, relatively narrow, flexible, all or part celluloid strip permanently secured to a backing or supporting strip.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawing and in part Will be more fully set forth in the following particular description of one form of strip embodying the invention, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a shoe decorated with lengths of stripping or trimmings constituting a preferred embodiment of the in- Vention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in plan of the stripping shown in Fig. 1 in its fiat condition before being applied to the shoe and with parts broken away to show details of construction; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 and showing the stripping applied to the leather upper of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, there is shown in Fig. 1 a shoe A provided with an edge binding C and a toe strap D formed of the stripping herein featured and illustrated to show the application thereof to rounded surfaces, in the.` instant case being the leather upper of the shoe. It is understood that the stripping is made in long lengths and as 'formed is wound into a spiral flat disc as is usual in marketing tape and similar binding material.

The stripping is formed primarily of a long bottom strip of embossed paper or tin foil I0,

but .it is tobe understood that. it is; within the scope of thisl disclosure to make. the `strip o-f Celluloid, pyroxlin,. cellulose acetate or phenol derivatives 'of the type usually manufactured in thirrsheets.v This bottom ,layer III is preferably a sheet. .of opaque paper, .the/upper surface of whichis. colored and .which sheet .has .been embossed to disclose somev preformed. design such Yas -thefheavy wavy lines. I I contrasting with ,the :lighter linesnl2 to form an effect .simulating a .cloisonneor guillochedeffect'.. Positioned on top -of thelayer I0 is a thin covering layer or-coating I3 .of .transparent and .preferably colored `celluloid throughwhich the design II and its background I2 is visible.

It is within the scope of the disclosure to consider that the layer Ill is a layer of celluloid or equivalent composition material moulded or embossed to provide the desired form of design II-I2 and which in one physical embodiment of the invention is guilloched, as suggested in the Patent to Assael, No. 1,639,716, August 23, 1927, or as otherwise formed to give a oloisonne effect and which effect is visible through the transparent top layer I3 as suggested in the patent to Gloster, No. 1,578,982, March 30, 1926. It is suggested that the strips I0 and I3 be integrally united to form a single strip of composition material, the exposed side I4 of which is polished.

The strip III-I3 irrespective as to how formed is backed by a layer of fabric I5 which underlies the strip I0, laps the edges of the strips III-I3 and overlaps the outer edges of the transparent material I3 to form beads I6 at opposite edges of the stripping leaving the central portion I'I between the beads as an exposed strip through which the design II-I2 is visible. Lines of stitching I8 are passed through the beads and through the layers III-I3 adjacent their longitudinal edges and through the bottom part of the fabric strip I5. The strip is secured to the support D by the use of an adhesive I9. It is Within the scope of the disclosure to omit the central part of the bottom strip I5 and thus leave opposite edges of the layer Ill- I 3 protected by the U-shaped binding edge pieces I6.

It is a feature of this disclosure that the stripping can be formed as a long and theoretically endless strip of narrow width and which long strip can be conventionally wound on a feeding spool or itself form a spool which can be rotatably mounted and arranged and fed to the article being decorated in the same manner as ordinary tape is at present applied to a sewing or ing With the color of the fabric l and, of

course, can be made of a color to harmonize with or contrastI with the leather or other material trimmed by the stripping herein featured. In those cases where the sewing is done with a small gauge needle taking a short stitch there is provided the appearance of a line of equally spaced apart dots down each side edge of the stripping which further tends to provide Aan artistic effect.

In the illustrated embodiment of the inven- .tion the stripping has been shown applied as a shoe strap D to illustrate the bending of the stripping about a curved surface with the beaded side uppermost, as the stripping is somewhat more flexible When bent with the fabric side on the inner side of the curve rather than being bent about the beaded side.

While it is suggested herein that the stripping be secured as by cementing to the leather or other surface material being trimmed, it is obviously Within the scope of the disclosure td `secure the stripping to its support by sewing, by

the use of Wire metal fasteners and by the use of other conventional fastening means now known in securing fabric tape to different materials.

While there has been shown, described and pointed out in the annexed claim, certain novel features of the invention, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions and changes in the form and details of the device illustrated and inA its operation may be made by those skilled in the art Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

`A tape-like flexible stripping comprising a long'narrow sheet of opaque paper having embossed heavy wavy lines and contrasting lighter lines extending transversely of the length of the stripping, coacting to form an effect simulating a cloisonne design and having its upper embossed surface colored, ai thin layer of transparent celluloid superposed thereon and integrally and permanently united to the paper and through which celluloid layer the cloisonne design and its background is visible, the exposed -upper surface of the celluloid layer being highly polished, and a fabric backing layer lapping the Yedges of the paper sheet Vand celluloid layer and forming protective beads at opposite edges of strip.

IRVING FROHLICH. 

